RE: [dita-fa-edboard] bogus postings on dita.xml.org...

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

In answer to Scott's question below, "Should we delete the users that post
garbage .. or just block them?"

Editorial Board members should feel free to delete spam and block users that
post spam--or send me a heads-up and I'll do it. My assumption is that it's
(slightly) better to block a user than delete him/her. A determined blocked
user will have to use a different email address to re-register, a deleted user
could simply re-register with the same one.

If someone posts something not related to DITA, but not blatantly spam, I
usually delete the post, then send the user the following message:

***** 

Thank you for taking the time to contribute to DITA XML.org.

Please note that the XML.org Code of Conduct and Editorial Guidelines prohibit
the posting of any information that does not specifically relate to the site's
topic (DITA) and/or that is overtly commercial in nature.

Your recent post has been removed from the site, as it does not indicate its
specific relevance to DITA.

If your information does relate to DITA, you are welcome to re-post it in a
format that complies with our site's Editorial Guidelines.

Please contact communications@oasis-open.org if you have any questions on this.

***** 


Carol


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Prentice [mailto:sp@leximation.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 7:07 PM
To: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: [dita-fa-edboard] bogus postings on dita.xml.org...

Hi...

I noticed a large number of bogus postings on the site and was deleting 
them along with blocking the usernames that posted them (if you delete 
the user before removing the pages they posted, it appears that you can 
run into trouble). This is all as you'd expect these days, but I ran 
into a user named "admin" (who actually has full admin privileges) who 
posted an item titled .. "tiny nude models" .. I've deleted the posting, 
but can't (obviously) delete the user. Does this mean that someone has 
hacked in as "admin"? Perhaps we should change the password for the user 
"admin"?

Should we delete the users that post garbage .. or just block them? 
Either way, they can just register again.

Also .. if you go to the admin page .. http://dita.xml.org/admin .. and 
filter on all messages, you'll see a large number of PHP errors .. this 
doesn't seem right .. these errors are being generated many times per 
second.

...scott






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